By Lloyd Levy LONDON, England, Nov. 10 — I suppose it is a sign of getting old, that one feels standards are falling in the younger generations. The last 24 hours have seen some thoroughly distressing examples of the most unbelievable ignorance among young people in the UK. There is a quiz programme on television called
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Lloyd LevyBy Carol Davis SAN DIEGO–On May 27, 2008, a major monument to gay holocaust victims was unveiled in Berlin. The monument remembering gays persecuted by the Nazi regime ‘was unveiled in preparation for a ceremony in Berlin which was presided over by Germany’s federal commissioner for culture, Bernard Neumann, and openly gay Berlin Mayor Klaus
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Carol Davis, Middle East, San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & BroadcastPOWAY, California (Press Release) – Rick Recht, the top-touring musician in Jewish music, will perform an all-ages family concert on Sunday, December 6, 2009 at 4:00 pm at Temple Adat Shalom, 15905 Pomerado Road, Poway, CA 92064. Recht’s high-energy, interactive family concert will appeal to all ages and feature a lot of singing, clapping and jumping from
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San Diego CalendarLA JOLLA, California (Press Release) — The 26th Annual Hanukkah Happening, co-sponsored by the Nierman Preschool – Glickman-Galinson Education Complex and the JCC Youth Department, will take place at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, JACOBS FAMILY CAMPUS on Sunday, December 6, 2009, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Hanukkah Happening is San Diego’s largest
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San Diego Calendar, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release)–California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner on Monday announced that the Department of Insurance (CDI) has recovered more than $27 million from insurance companies for consumers through its complaint process in the aftermath of the devastating Witch Creek fire in San Diego County that killed two people, destroyed 1,650 structures and burned more than 197,000
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– In its continued response to the economic crisis and the increasing unemployment rate in San Diego, Jewish Family Service has launched a new program to serve the many Jewish community members affected with job loss. Building on our already established series of career planning and job search workshops, the Jewish Employment
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San Diego Calendar, USASAN DIEGO–National Adoption Month is the ideal time to learn and discuss the ins and outs of the Adoption process. On Sunday, November 15, Adoption Alliance is hosting Embracing Adoption: A Conference for adoptive families and professionals who work in adoption services. Adoption Alliance of Southern California is a Hague Accredited non-profit adoption agency licensed
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San Diego Calendar, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release) – Waters of Eden, San Diego Community Mikvah and Education Center, hosts its premier event, a multimedia stage production of “The Mikveh Monologues”. Written by best-selling author Anita Diamant (The Red Tent) and director Janet Buchwald, the play is an introspective tour of the ritual bath, redefined for 21st century usage, and
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San Diego Calendar, USA(Articles culled by Gail Umeham from the archives of Southwestern Jewish Press) Col. Irving Salomon Next Forum Speaker Southwestern Jewish Press December 11, 1953 Page 3 Col. Irving Salomon, United Nations representative and prominent Republican leader, will be the next speaker at the Forum Lecture Series, Wednesday, Jan. 6, at the Jewish Community Center, 3227
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Adventures in SD HistoryBy Lynne Thrope SAN DIEGO–Finally, it is one week away. The mother of all food and wine fests in Southern California – the event I patiently wait for each year to taste, savor, and schmooze with local culinary personalities, such as Sam Zien aka Sam the Cooking Guy, San Diego’s Top Chef Brian Malarkey,
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San Diego CalendarBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C.–Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority (West Bank division) has announced that he will not run in the Palestinian election currently scheduled for January 2010. He blames Israeli “intransigence” on the issue of houses for Jewish people east of the 1949 Armistice Line. We offer another perspective. “Strengthening
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Middle East, Shoshana BryenBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Thomas Friedman has written one of his better articles. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/opinion/08friedman.html?_r=1&ref=opinion As a retired professor still inclined to give grades to everything I hear or read, I’d say about 92, or A-. The major theme is quite good. Friedman recognizes that there is no gas left in the peace process. It
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Ira SharkanskyBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — When 12-year old M. applied to attend the Jews’ Free School, the secondary school that was founded in 1732 and serves London’s Jewish community, he was not accepted. The reason? His mother was not born Jewish and her conversion was in accordance with the progressive, not the orthodox,
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Dorothea Shefer-VansonBy Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO– In Paris, in 1841, the ballet Giselle was danced for the first time. It was part of an entire repertoire in the various arts which became known as the Romantic Era; dance, literature, poetry and music. This milieu envisioned the female as ephemeral, not quite human; a sylph, a swan,
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